{"id":124781,"date":"2023-01-19T05:12:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=124781"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:19:41","slug":"never-give-up-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=124781","title":{"rendered":"Never Giving UP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124783\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4443.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really proud of my students when they go back to Japan and challenge themselves. \u00a0Whether it&#8217;s surfing, or anything to do with the ocean, it&#8217;s cool to see them growing. \u00a0Nao-san is at some secret island that is one of the most beautiful places in Japan. \u00a0She&#8217;s challenging herself and taking baby steps to learn more and more about the ocean. \u00a0And she is never giving up!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124785\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4271.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ocean teaches you about life, the ocean teaches you about obstacles, and the ocean teaches you to be humble. \u00a0Trying to wing foil is something less than .0001% of the world could ever do. \u00a0But don&#8217;t tell that to Nao-san. \u00a0She is never giving up!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124784\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_4567.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After days and days and days of struggling, this girl is now flying! \u00a0Once you take flight, your life will never be the same. \u00a0I&#8217;m so proud of you Nao-san!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really proud of my students when they go back to Japan and challenge themselves. \u00a0Whether it&#8217;s surfing, or anything to do with the ocean, it&#8217;s cool to see them growing. \u00a0Nao-san is at some secret island that is one of the most beautiful places in Japan. \u00a0She&#8217;s challenging herself and taking baby steps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-124781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124787,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124781\/revisions\/124787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}